NITR 14th best professional college
Rourkela: The National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NITR) has been ranked as the 14th best professional college in the country, reveals a survey conducted by the Outlook magazine recently. Of the 75 top engineering colleges, including IITs, the NITR was also placed in third position after IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati in the top three East Zone institutions. The NITR under the leadership of its Director Prof SK Sarangi has carved a niche at both national and international levels in providing quality education, said its Public Relations Committee Secretary RK Sinha.
78 kg ganja seized in R’kela, two held
Rourkela: The Sector-3 police seized four packets of ganja weighing 78 kg from a closed house at Akhandalmani Basti in Sector-2 on Wednesday evening. The cops also arrested two persons in this connection. Acting on a tip-off, the police reached the spot and broke the lock of the house in the presence of Magistrate Sushant Singh and unearthed the contraband packets. later, two persons, Parsuram Das(80) and Kiran Swain(22) of Ganjam district came to the police station claiming the ownership of the ganja. They confessed that they have been involved in the business for many years and the narcotics were to be sent to Delhi. Both were forwarded to court on Thursday.